[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#512750: Bug#512750: What to do for 3.8?

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:30:59PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> What should we do with this bug for request-tracker3.8?
> 
> I quite like the idea of supporting sqlite out of the box and agree
> that we can't automatically configure anything else reliably.
> 
> It is also fairly clear that it's not recommended for use in any
> production setting (except possibly for very low-use installations).
> 
> It's already the case that anyone using our RT packages is going to have
> to have some knowledge of these matters - RT is not a fire-and-forget
> deployment even if we try and make it so as much as possible.
> 
> Can we do any better than duplicating the documentation currently in
> 3.6 in 3.8 (and moving the docs currently on the team's web space into
> the package once we've had a chance to stabilise them?)

A dbconfig-common hook for adding comments to the dbc_dbtypes list along
with something like "Recommends: rt3.6-db-mysql|rt3.6-db-postgresql" could
work.

The hook feels a bit bloatish and too special purpose, but I suppose it
doesn't hurt to cook up a patch and ask the dbconfig-common maintainers
for their opinion. I'll look at that.

Meanwhile, I think the Lenny solution is adequate. I agree the docs
eventually belong in the package itself.

I don't expect this to be such a big thing for Squeeze: Jesse said
there are just a few known issues with the SQLite backend, and the Lenny
version + users of the 3.8 versions will probably give it more testing.

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org